Gangwon

Chuncheon Mime Festival

The Chuncheon Mime Festival is one of Korea’s leading performing arts festivals, connecting the city, art, and its people through mime, an art form that communicates through movement. Held every year during the last week of May in Chuncheon, the city of water and springtime, the festival is recognized as one of the world’s three major mime festivals, alongside France’s Mimos Mime Festival and the London Mime Festival in the United Kingdom. Over the years, it has developed a distinctive artistic identity that blends Chuncheon, mime, and festival culture into a genre of its own. Through wordless movement and the creative fusion of water, fire, flowers, light, video, and other artistic forms, the festival expresses the emotions and spirit of the city and its people. It is also a vibrant “nanjang” festival that transforms the desires and energies of both the city and the times into artistic expression. Under the theme “Body Landscape,” the 2026 Chuncheon Mime Festival will take place from May 24 to 31. Beginning with the opening nanjang, Ah! Surajang, the eight-day festival will present diverse "body landscapes" throughout Chuncheon through theater performances, Walking Mime, Art Nanjang X, and the all-night Dokkaebi Nanjang. Official location: 112, Chuncheon-ro, Chuncheon-si, Gangwon-do. Plan this visit using the official information above as the baseline. Operating hours, admission conditions, programs, access rules, and parking arrangements can change after this review, so confirm the latest notice on the linked official website before departure. This is especially important when a visit depends on a particular exhibition, guided program, seasonal activity, reservation, or accessibility service. Chuncheon Mime Festival (춘천마임축제) is presented here as a destination rather than as a commercial listing. The description focuses on the setting and visitor experience documented by the Korea Tourism Organization. Respect residential, religious, ecological, and cultural-property rules where they apply, and use the official contact for questions that affect access or safety.